Whilst building a new web site, I decided to give PNG images a go because gifs, just were not working. The result was fabulous. They came out perfectly.

Only thing was I looking at the page in Firefox.

PNG images are a recommendation of the W3C consortium for web standards.

Now here’s the bad news….

I went innocently to look at my page in IE and lo and behold the images had an ugly gray
rectangle - where they were transparent. I first thought that I was a doofus, but then I realised it was just another cross browser foible.

IE does not fully support PNG images, despite them being a way superior format with no patent issues like gifs.

On the good guy side we have MAC and Firefox. In the light of the recent debacle with ActiveX I believe that Microsoft could engender some Public Relations Kudos, by releasing support for this format at all haste.

I have signed a petition requesting this and I would ask that you also sign it - there are so
far 25000 signatories requesting this support from Microsoft and most of these would be web designers, not people in the street.

So if you want a better web, and support for PNG should you one day decide to use it, please lend your voice to this popular petition and let’s see if we can get something happening on this.

Here is the link

Jim Edwards has been awake while others were sleeping.
In his sleuth like fashion he alerts us to a serious disablement
of features in Internet Explorer and what this could mean
to your web site.

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Article Snippet:

One of the top news stories this week that got virtually no
popular press involves the judgment against Microsoft by a
small company with a big software patent.

University of California and Eolas Technologies, Inc. hold a
patent which Microsoft, according to several judges,
violated with its popular Internet Explorer Web browser.

… read full article

But really all you need to do is make the day equal to 10 units.

You have 10 Googies in a day. Each Googie equals 100 moogies.

there are 100 boogies in a moogie.

So at 6am in our current system now becomes 2.5 am decimal.

That is - 50 moogies past the 2nd Googie

The real problem with changing time systems is getting everyone to agree to change.

Pros and Cons:

Less hours in the day means you don’t live as long.
Hours are longer means you work more for less money.
Having a time system based on ten is too simple for complicated people and it might
put some experts out of work.

Some reference books may have to be rewritten, which will annoy publishers, but give the Encyclopaedia buyers and excellent reason to push the new edition.

Cars will travel faster because they will be able to travel further in an hour so this will mean
we will get to work more quickly, meaning we will work even longer - which is a unlooked for synergy between two points above.

What’s your vote? Should we have a decimal time system or would you be as confused as the author?

P.S I do hope you realize there is some attempt at humor in the above post.